On Mon,04.May.09, 16:06:21, David Baron wrote:
> Just upgraded. Seems OK, however
>
> 1. Wants to remove inputs, i.e. keyboard and mouse, x drivers. Managed to keep
> them. However, listchanges says they are now ignored. What's the story here?
If everything works you don't need to worry, but if you're curious read
this
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide
> 2. Along the bootup init, the screen font gets changed to a sans-serif 16pt
> font. The upgrade config said this was the default. Looks nice, OK, but far
> too big. Want to get the smaller font I had. Where in /etc... is this
> specified or must I run dpkg-reconfigure (on what package?)?
If you mean the text on the console that it's
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
and the font you see is called Terminus. Apparently it was created for
easy reading.
> 3. This upgrade did restore dri for my matrox g200 clunker. However, since the
> firmware was moved off the kernel to its own package, using dri immediately
> hangs the machine. Any workaround until someone fixes this:-)?
I don't understand, you installed the firmware and it still hangs or you
can't find the firmware? If the later its firmware-linux (according to
the description), available in non-free.
Regards,
Andrei
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